ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,243, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICON Kondensatoren GmbH (Gera, Germany).
"Cylindrical capacitor" was invented by Patrick Fischer (Gera, Germany), Volker Geitner (Hundhaupten, Germany) and Marko Stoike (Wunschendorf/Elster, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical capacitor consists of a plurality of cylindrical winding elements which are stacked one on top of the other in the cylinder axial direction and have electrical contact surfaces on their end faces, the contact surfaces being connected to switching strips leading over the cylinder lateral surface and to at least one connection terminal in each case. T...